[Foundation-l] Localisation of MediaWiki

[David Gerard]

On 16/01/2008, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com> wrote:

> One idea that still kicks around in my head is the idea that a
> language's first project should not be a "wikipedia" or a "wikibooks",
> but instead an undifferentiated, general-purpose wiki that can be used
> to encompass all the various projects. For instance, you start out
> with a project on which you can write articles/books/quotes/news/etc.
> Once you reach certain goals, you will be allowed to differentiate
> certain projects: A wikipedia, then a wikinews, a wikibooks,
> wiktionary, etc. In this way, speakers of a foreign language have the
> capability to write books/articles/news/quotes/dictionaries/etc all at
> once. Think of it like an incubator for a single language.


Indeed. Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wiktionary and Wikisource were created
because the English Wikipedia community at the time decided those
things didn't go in "an encyclopedia." Another community may well
decide otherwise.


- d.